The men's 200 metres at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics was held at the London Olympic Stadium on 7, 9, and 10 August.Start list The winning margin was 0.02 seconds.

Summary Coming out of the blocks in the final, Wayde van Niekerk and Isaac Makwala were the first to make up ground on the stagger, coming off the turn with Ramil Guliyev about even. Makwala started to lose ground, passed by Jereem Richards to his outside. van Niekerk seemed to have the edge until the last 30 metres when Guliyev pulled ahead. As Richards closed, all the athletes leaned for a photo finish. Guliyev had a clear win, but van Niekerk's edge for silver on Richards was the narrowest possible, .001 of a second 20.106 to 20.107.

Records Before the competition records were as follows:

Record Athlete Date LocationWorld19.19Usain Bolt20 Aug 2009Berlin, GermanyChampionshipWorld leading19.77Isaac Makwala14 Jul 2017Madrid, SpainAfrican19.68Frank Fredericks1 Aug 1996Atlanta, United StatesAsian19.97Femi Ogunode11 Sep 2015Brussels, BelgiumNACAC19.19Usain BoltBerlin, GermanySouth American19.81Alonso Edward20 Aug 2009Berlin, GermanyEuropean19.72Pietro Mennea12 Sep 1979Mexico City, MexicoOceanian20.08Peter Norman16 Oct 1968Mexico City, Mexico

The following records were set at the competition:

Record Athlete Date Zambian20.29Sydney Siame7 Aug 2017

Qualification standard The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 20.44.

Schedule The event schedule, in local time (UTC+1), is as follows: Date Time Round7 August 18:30 Heats9 August 20:55 Semifinals10 August 21:50 Final

Results

Heats The first round took place on 7 August in seven heats. However, Isaac Makwala, who was prevented from competing due to being quarantined for norovirus, was allowed to run in an additional heat on the 9 August following an appeal by the Botswana delegation. The 8 heats were as follows:

Heat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Date7 Aug 9 Aug Start time 18:30 18:38 18:46 18:54 19:02 19:10 19:18 18:41 Wind (m/s) −0.5 −0.6 +0.3 +0.7 −0.6 +0.6 +0.7 +1.4 Photo finishlinklinklinklinklinklinklinklink

The first three in each heat ( Q ) and the next four fastest ( q ) qualified for the semifinals. The overall results were as follows:

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 2 Jereem Richards 20.05 2 7 4 Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake 20.08 3 4 5 Ramil Guliyev 20.16 4 3 7 Wayde van Niekerk 20.16 5 3 8 Daniel Talbot 20.16 , 6 8 7 Isaac Makwala 20.20 7 6 8 Isiah Young 20.19 8 4 2 Ameer Webb 20.22 9 6 7 Akani Simbine 20.26 10 5 3 Sydney Siame 20.29 , 11 6 4 Likourgos-Stefanos Tsakonas 20.37 12 1 6 Yohan Blake 20.39 13 4 4 Christophe Lemaitre 20.40 14 2 7 Kyree King 20.41 15 6 6 Zharnel Hughes 20.43 16 5 6 Kyle Greaux 20.48 17 4 7 Wilfried Koffi Hua 20.49 18 2 8 Rasheed Dwyer 20.49 19 1 8 Abdul Hakim Sani Brown 20.52 20 3 5 Ján Volko 20.52 21 1 7 Alex Wilson 20.54 22 4 3 David Lima 20.54 23 1 3 Serhiy Smelyk 20.58 24 7 3 Shota Iizuka 20.58 25 5 4 Filippo Tortu 20.59 26 2 6 Jonathan Quarcoo 20.60 27 5 8 Warren Weir 20.60 28 7 7 Winston George 20.61 29 3 3 Alonso Edward 20.61 30 6 3 Ahmed Ali 20.64 31 2 4 Jeffrey John 20.66 32 3 4 Sibusiso Matsenjwa 20.67 33 2 5 Mark Otieno Odhiambo 20.74 34 1 2 Teray Smith 20.77 35 5 2 Adama Jammeh 20.79 36 5 5 Jeremy Dodson 20.81 37 3 2 Aldemir da Silva Júnior 20.82 38 4 8 Salem Eid Yaqoob 20.84 39 1 5 Bernardo Baloyes 20.86 40 6 2 Joseph Millar 20.97 41 3 6 Burkheart Ellis, Jr. 20.99 42 6 5 Fabrice Dabla 21.40 43 1 4 Mohamed Obaid Al-Saadi 21.50 44 2 3 Ifeanyichukwu Otuonye 21.91 45 7 2 Muhd Noor Firdaus ar-Rasyid 22.36 46 4 6 Kabongo Mulumba 23.57 7 5 Aaron Brown 7 6 Clarence Munyai 4 9 Paul Nalau 7 8 Julius Morris

Semifinals The semifinals took place on 9 August in three heats as follows:

Heat 1 2 3 Start time 20:55 21:04 21:13 Wind (m/s) +2.1 −0.3 +0.3 Photo finishlinklinklink

The first two in each heat ( Q ) and the next two fastest ( q ) qualified for the final. The overall results were as follows:

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 7 Isiah Young 20.12 2 2 5 Jereem Richards 20.14 3 1 1 Isaac Makwala 20.14 4 3 4 Ramil Guliyev 20.17 5 1 5 Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake 20.19 6 3 5 Ameer Webb 20.22 7 3 6 Wayde van Niekerk 20.28 8 3 8 Christophe Lemaitre 20.30 9 3 7 Daniel Talbot 20.38 10 2 9 Abdul Hakim Sani Brown 20.43 11 2 7 Yohan Blake 20.52 12 2 6 Sydney Siame 20.54 13 1 2 David Lima 20.56 14 2 4 Kyree King 20.59 15 2 8 Ján Volko 20.61 16 1 8 Shota Iizuka 20.62 17 1 3 Filippo Tortu 20.62 18 1 4 Akani Simbine 20.62 19 1 6 Kyle Greaux 20.65 20 1 9 Rasheed Dwyer 20.69 21 3 9 Likourgos-Stefanos Tsakonas 20.73 22 3 2 Winston George 20.74 23 3 3 Wilfried Koffi Hua 20.80 24 2 3 Zharnel Hughes 20.85 25 2 2 Alex Wilson 21.22

Final The final took place on 10 August at 21:52. The wind was −0.1 metres per second and the results were as follows (photo finish):

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 5 Ramil Guliyev 20.09 3 Wayde van Niekerk 20.11 20.106 7 Jereem Richards 20.11 20.1074 2 Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake 20.24 5 9 Ameer Webb 20.26 6 6 Isaac Makwala 20.44 7 8 Abdul Hakim Sani Brown 20.63 8 4 Isiah Young 20.64

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